Food & Water
The two things a household runs out of first. Long-term food storage, rotating pantries, freeze-dried, canning and mylar — plus water filtration, storage, sourcing and treatment. The ground truth on what actually feeds and hydrates a household when the supply chain stalls. Plain reviews and honest taste tests, no panic.
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Greenhouse failure & prep to rebuild
Walkthrough of diagnosing greenhouse damage, planning repairs, and rebuilding from failure—practical skills for food production resilience.
Taming Cottontail Rabbits
Eleven-minute guide to handling, socializing, and caring for wild cottontail rabbits as a practical homesteading and food-production skill.
Cooking Homemade Beef Stew over a Dakota Fire Hole with the Bush Runner
Ten-minute walkthrough: preparing and cooking a full meal over a Dakota fire hole using the Bush Runner stove for off-grid emergency cooking.
Preparing Egg Drop Soup Over a Small Dakota Fire Hole
Six-minute demonstration of cooking over a Dakota fire hole using the StealthFyre Bush Runner stove, showing practical techniques for lightweight off-grid meal preparation.
Inside Our Mobile Emergency Kitchen Chuck Box by Preparedness Kits
Ten-minute walkthrough of a 136-item mobile emergency kitchen kit: contents, organization, and stadium-style access design for rapid deployment.
Overhauling our main garden - Part 2: Building a raised garden bed
Seven-minute walkthrough of constructing a raised garden bed as part of a suburban homestead food-production overhaul.
What Should I Consider Before Stocking Up on Survival Foods?
Five-minute walkthrough on evaluating and testing stored foods before buying in bulk, with emphasis on digestive compatibility and family needs.
Growing Food and Medicine
Episode 5: cultivating edible and medicinal plants in an off-grid homestead setting for household self-sufficiency.
Off Grid Regenerative Agriculture
Ten-minute overview of regenerative agriculture practices for off-grid homesteading and food self-sufficiency on your own land.
Catch and Cook Pigeon Fritters
Five-minute walkthrough of field dressing a pigeon and preparing it as fritters—practical wild-food procurement and cooking from foraged game.
Why It's Important to Know Your Incubator Type
Five-minute guide to still-air versus forced-air incubators and how fan systems affect temperature settings for successful egg hatching.
Growing Corn in Straw
Nine-minute walkthrough on growing sweet corn using straw as the growing medium, with results from an experiment the creator says hasn't been widely documented.
Tomato Bucket System - Setting Up and Planting
11-minute walkthrough transplanting tomato starts into 5-gallon buckets for a space-efficient growing system.
Straw Bale Garden Collaboration - Update
Garden update on a multi-channel straw bale gardening collaboration project, showcasing seasonal progress and participating homesteading channels.
Bale Gardening - Direct Sowing Squash and Cucumbers
Nine-minute walkthrough on direct-sowing large seeds into straw bales, covering spacing and moisture for squash, cucumber, and similar crops.
Bale Gardening - Planting Peppers
Nine-minute walkthrough on planting pepper seedlings in straw-bale gardens: spreading the straw and transplanting techniques for outdoor food production.
Editor's note
“If you only have a weekend and $200, fix water before anything else — it's the prep with the highest ratio of survival impact per dollar. On food: most $400 emergency kits could be replaced with $120 of supermarket staples plus mylar bags. The expensive part of food prep is the marketing, not the calories.”
— Cockroach editorial
Costco Shopping Haul: $234 for 2 Weeks of Meals
Seven-minute walkthrough of a $234 Costco haul demonstrating how to stock groceries for two weeks of meals on a budget.
Goats! Farm Update
Nubian dairy goats setup, housing construction, and early-stage farm management on a homestead switching from cattle to milk production.
Is Incubating Eggs Right for You?
Introduction to home egg incubation: evaluating whether hatching chicks at home fits your homesteading setup and goals.
Free Seed Catalogs by Mail
Five-minute walkthrough of how to request free seed catalogs from 20+ major US seed suppliers for planning your next growing season.
Five Garden Tips in Five Minutes
Five practical gardening techniques for food production, presented as a quick reference guide by an urban homesteader.
Seed Swap Time
How to organize and participate in seed swaps to build diverse heirloom varieties for your garden and strengthen community seed networks.
So you want ducks
Five-minute introduction to keeping ducks on a homestead: basics of duck husbandry, why they're useful for self-sufficiency, and what beginners should know before starting.
Easy Corn Fritters Recipe - Midwest Style
Seven-minute recipe for corn fritters using fresh or preserved corn, demonstrating food preparation from homegrown harvest.
Grow Sweet Potatoes in Wisconsin - Harvest Results
Eight-minute walkthrough of sweet potato cultivation in a cold-climate garden, from planting through harvest outcomes and yield.
Harvesting Potatoes, Yams, and Garden Cleanup
Amy documents fall harvest, garden organization, and season-extension strategies on her ten-acre homestead, including unexpected late-season yields.
HydroBlu Water Filter and Versa Flow Gravity Bag
Seven-minute walkthrough of the HydroBlu gravity water filtration system and Versa Flow bag for household water purification.
Planting True Sweetpotato Seed
How to grow sweetpotatoes from true seed for climate-adapted varieties, breeding methods, and seed production in cooler growing regions.
Katadyn Base Camp Pro 10-Liter Water Filter Unboxing
14-minute unboxing and overview of the Katadyn Base Camp Pro gravity water filter system for household water storage and filtration.
Hunting a Deer With a Sniper Rifle SSG08
Field demonstration of hunting with a precision rifle, testing a Steyr Arms SSG08 for deer-sized game in a practical hunting scenario.
DIY Survival Fishing Rod
Ten-minute walkthrough building a functional fishing rod from multi-tool, safety pins, duct tape, wire ties, and a stick using common survival-kit components.
Food Storage Prepping: 1 Month Supply
Ten-minute walkthrough building and organizing a 30-day food and water supply for two people on a budget.